Except some family members probably

Those were the days. Who needs efficiency when you can have drama.

One of my first jobs out of college in the early 80s was training people how to use computers and software as they were rolled out to companies and that industry lasted maybe 10 yrs because the new employees coming in didn’t need training.

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

defector.com/president-ex...

::low whistle::

That’s a nice feature. How handy.

Tax breaks for just four corporations—Amazon, Alphabet, Google, and Tesla—blew a $51 BILLION hole in the deficit last year.

Every penny being taken from healthcare, housing, childcare, and food assistance is paying for that.

It’s not that hard for the manufacturers to make it tinkle like a bell instead of beep like a truck backing up but yet they don’t.

Maybe that’s it. I’ve never had a microwave that wasn’t annoying af.

Why am I polite to my fridge when it pings at me (Thanks sweetie) and so damn rude to my microwave (Shut-up you fucker)?

Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light ‪—‬ without breaking the laws of relativity For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of light. The findings have implications in fluid dynamics, optics and many other ...

Hold up. Isn’t there already quite a lot going on. www.livescience.com/physics-math...

Huge turnout today for JD Vance and Erika Kirk.

I stand corrected - they are a good group despite the terrible name.

I was and I stand corrected. Where do I sign up? (But it’s a terrible name.)

I mean yes but how insufferable do you have to be to join a group called Patriotic Millionaires. Wait. I know - starting initiation is at least 1 million asshat.

Huh. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 2 Fridge magnets are our memories, in the form of plastic alligators.

Fridge magnets are such rich texts that I had to make this one a two-parter:

Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1 Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

Proposal for a media org to pay @faineg.bsky.social to be their Staff Drone Reporter

Was she a 9 tailed fox demon? Because she sounds like one.

I had a bellman at a hotel in New Jersey ask, “Can I get you anything else? The blood of your foes?“

Folks, this is the single highest amount of money any Alaskan politician has ever raised in a single quarter

he got too excited at the UFC fight in miami and now he can’t sleep so he’s trying to fight the pope and posting AI slop of himself as jesus and a hotel on the moon. this rocks. i think the pope could beat him in single combat, let’s do it.

The Pure Joy of Joy You can't fake the happiness of Artemis II — or Zohran Mamdani

The joyful, wonder-filled Artemis scenes contrast with our nation's leaders, people who have ascended to the pinnacles of power & wealth—and yet couldn’t day-to-day be more miserable, a fact that they all collectively broadcast with every fiber of their being. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

Thwart the bastards - live on a boat.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DiE Targeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT Picture Clustered All points This map and database collects selected global examples from OSINT sources of targeted small drone (consumer and hobby-type) and certain MALE drone attacks on civilians since 2022. Click on the map markers for further information and sources. Read more about this project and the methodology. Read resources on small drone attacks on civilians. Disclaimer: This map is not intended to be a comprehensive or complete summary of targeted drone attacks on civilians, and these incidents have not been fully validated or investigated by the editors. It is intended to provide an overview of a growing global problem. Oma + - 今 L San Antonio Houston Chihuahua City Gulf of California Monterrey Mazatlán Mexico Tampico Guadalajara Mexico City Tuxtla Gut

I’ve updated my map of attacks on civilians with small drones to include a number of disturbing cases in Mexico and in Papua:

map.faineg.com/public/index...

Exactly!

I like dogs but now I avoid them in public because their people are too often idiots.

Targeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT Picture A global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022.

Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before.

I made a map about it: